Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...activity centers around the Indoor Athletic Building which was constructed at a cost of $1,200,000 and houses two swimming pools, three basketball floors which may be converted into tennis courts, boxing, wrestling, fencing rooms as well as locker accommodations for over 2,500 people. The pools are 75 feet by 40 with a depth ranging from 7 to 11 feet and a smaller practice pool 40 by 25 with a depth of from four to five feet...
Near Charleston, S. C. Timesman Charles McLean found 300 whites and 145 Negroes dabbling at a road between their separate camps, mile apart. At an abandoned CCCamp near Blaney, S. C. (pop. 200) some 265 veterans were slowly turning a fish pond into a swimming pool. At Kingstree, S. C., whose 3000 residents are about half Negro, 200 campers were pulling up pine trees preparatory to laying out a golf course...
...Manhattan's Aquarium, a little blackfoot penguin sprained its ankle when it stepped on a marshmallow someone had dropped onto the penguins' pool platform...
Atlas Corp. was formed in 1923 as a private pool by Mr. Odium, his friend George Howard of Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett and their wives with a capital of $40,000. It took a drubbing in 1926, but coasted profitably into 1929. Then Floyd Odium began to smell Depression, to hoard his cash. When the October market barrage had subsided, he started picking up damaged investment trusts like Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Shenandoah Corp. and Blue Ridge...
...Timken likes to look across a carpet pock-marked with burned spots, evidence of successful rages. In gentler moods Chairman Timken is generous with his money. He pays high wages, has provided food and coal for old employes now idle. To Canton he once donated a $250,000 swimming pool. Eight years ago he gave Cleveland's Dr. Orval James Cunningham $1,000,000 to build a tank hospital where patients live under compressed air (TIME...